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Unprecedented Coal Shutdown Tests Authority of India’s New Court
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JOWAI, India – On April 17, in a ruling that stunned miners, truckers, and owners in this region of black dust and rivers that run the colors of the rainbow, India’s National Green Tribunal ordered the state of Meghalaya’s $650 million coal mining industry to shut down.
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India’s National Green Tribunal Charts Bold Course Towards Sustainable Development
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SHILLONG, India – India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT), a judicial body with legal authority that ranks just below the Supreme Court, is quickly emerging as one of the world’s most important forums for testing the idea that economic advancement is tightly wired to public safety and the security of water, air, and land.
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Necessary Partners: The Sahel Shows Why Development and Resilience Efforts Can’t Forget Men
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One-third of boys in the developing world don’t face the risk of marriage and pregnancy before age 18. There are no laws preventing men from owning land or property. Men don’t bear the brunt of increasingly frequent and severe disasters. And men don’t hold fewer than 25 percent of parliamentary seats worldwide.
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Water and New Development Path Are Priorities in U.S.-China Climate Agreement
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NEW DELHI, India – There are nearly 1.3 billion people in this swarming democracy, where over 66 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the general election last May. A few of them took me aside this week to express surprise at the puzzle that is the American electorate and its national leadership. -
Dividend or Divide? Africa’s Demographic Challenge
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“Sub-Saharan Africa’s young people are in effect the global labor force of the future,” said Jack Goldstone at the Wilson Center on October 15. “Whether they are productive, how large that cohort turns out to be, whether they find work or not, is going to have a bearing, I think, on all of us.” [Video Below]
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Integrated Development Programs Work to Expand Conservation and Health Efforts in Uganda and Madagascar
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As is becoming clear, climate change, environmental degradation, population, and poverty alleviation are inextricably linked in many parts of the world. [Video Below]
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Earth Pushes Back: Era of Indifference Greets Droughts, Floods, Storms, Tsunamis
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There’s nothing demur about Mother Earth these days. She’s fuming and pushing back hard. Very hard.
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A New Population Paradigm? Wolfgang Lutz on the “Education Effect”
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If you want to understand global population dynamics, you have to look past quantity and look at quality, says Wolfgang Lutz, founding director of the Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Global Human Capital, in this week’s podcast.
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